Corporate AI investment

Everlaw launched strategic integrations and partnerships connecting its governed evidence platform with Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Legal, Harvey, Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. The integrations allow legal teams to analyze evidentiary data across third-party AI platforms.

DISCO announced an enhancement to its generative AI-powered Auto Review product to eliminate prompt-engineering hurdles in document review. The tool refines prompts based on plain-language feedback and tests sample documents for improved review performance.

Fenwick & West is investing in internal AI initiatives, including testing, rolling out, and maintaining legal knowledge management tools and AI resources. The firm is also developing responsible-use training and identifying AI-enabled efficiencies for its Corporate Practice Group.

Hogan Lovells is creating its own AI tools alongside utilizing third-party legal AI vendor software.

Sidley Austin is expanding its internal technology and talent capabilities by hiring across key U.S. offices, including creating a role for an AI Vendor Evaluations & Management Associate Director.

Legora is expanding its legal research capabilities by developing a full ontology of law and an AI-native citator following deals with Qura and others.

GESSEL is deploying Harvey across all of its practice areas to integrate AI solutions into its operating model. The firm aims to automate document review, legal research, and drafting to allow lawyers to focus on high-value judgment and strategy.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton established Kilpatrick Labs as an internal incubator to build specialized AI tools and agentic workflows for patent filings, litigation prep, brand enforcement, and administrative operations.

Day Pitney is spearheading internal cross-departmental efforts to integrate generative AI tools into the firm's practices and developing policies for responsible AI use.

Casepoint launched Casepoint IQ, a single AI framework spanning its platform for e-discovery, legal holds, FOIA, and investigations. The initiative unifies generative AI assistants, predictive coding, and autonomous agents.

Cahill Gordon & Reindel has named Kelly Graves as its first Chief AI Strategy and Innovation Officer.

Rupp Pfalzgraf integrated Lexis+ AI into its workflows, taking about 18 months to reach an 86% attorney usage rate.

Dentons has partnered with collaborative generative AI platform Legora to give its lawyers Europe-wide access to advanced AI tools for legal tasks.

Legal AI company Harvey has built and introduced its first proprietary foundation model for legal workflows, utilizing Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 as its base model.

Aderant built and continues to invest in MADDI, its AI models and agents integrated into its Stridyn platform and Expert Sierra software for law firms. The platform unifies firm billing, time, and matter history to provide compliance-aware context for legal operational AI workflows.

Akerman hired its first Director of AI Development, Charles Zerner, to help determine which commercial AI tools to adopt and what solutions to build in-house.

Italian legal AI provider Lexroom acquired European legal tech startups Query Juriste and Praven Intelekt. The acquisitions expand Lexroom's legal research, document analysis, and drafting features into France and Bulgaria.

The Barreau du Québec is authorizing and launching a pilot project/sandbox to observe and gather data on AI usage in legal settings. The goal is to better understand AI tools and provide recommendations or regulatory oversight for the legal system.

LexisNexis updated and rebranded its flagship legal AI platform to Lexis+ AI Protégé, embedding AI capabilities for legal research, document analysis, drafting assistance, and citation verification directly into the Lexis+ interface.

Schenck Price is investing heavily in the adoption and integration of legal AI technology by partnering with LexisNexis to deploy Lexis+ with Protégé. The initiative aims to enhance attorney workflows, document drafting, and precision analysis to compete with larger competitors.